Slightly OT: Why We Collect

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by shernan30

Good morning Net54,

Tomorrow, Friday the 6th, I will be showing my collection to my vintage base ball team, The Ohio Village Muffins, at our end of the year banquet. I get to spend a little time talking about it and want to get some stories about why you collect to add.

I have a passion for the sport and the history. My goal is to be able to preserve some history of Columbus base ball and tell the stories of the players. My collection cover players from the 1877 team through 1950 with a lot of focus on the 1889 Columbus Solons presented in the OJ set.

So why do you collect?

Is there a family member that played in the deadball era?

Is it just an investment?

What got you started?

I'd like to tell a few different stories to maybe influence one or two teammates to start collecting.

Thanks,

Steven

I collect because I enjoy baseball and the history in it preserved in baseball cards. Started as a kid collecting all the topps Cubs cards and expanded backward to have allerrors and variations of the Cubs base set and the came forward to include topps updates. I draw the line at insert cards as there are way too many of them.

My great great uncle played for the Yankees in 1921 and 1922 and played in the 1921 World Series.

Not just an investment but it became an investment

Got involved with prewar by collecting cards of my Great Great uncle Elmer Miller

[sbfinley]

Going to the bar was not a viable hobby once I got married. Bought a t206 on eBay and found this site (the former site.) Blew every available dollar for about 5 years on cardboard. Sold it all and went to back school. Had a kid. Number two on the way now. Still finding dollars to blow on cardboard. Don't drink as much.

[nebboy]

I love baseball and the history of it. How baseball was and still is part of the fabric of what we are as a country. So collecting helps me find so many new things about the all aspects of the game. I do have an addition to the search, it's in the searching I get the thrill of the hunt for new cards/memorabilia and the bits and pieces of a great game that is associated with it.

[Exhibitman]

Collecting is in the collectors DNA. If it wasn't cards it would be something else. I've been at it nearly all my life.

I was fortunate to be there as a kid in the card club and card show era. It was my intro to business. I ran a table at a card club show when I was 12 years old. I still operate as a secondary business and hope that once I stop the law practice I will be able to make cards my prime business. So yes it is an investment, one that I happen to enjoy.

No family in baseball but two boxer cousins. Ray Miller (my avatar) was #1 ranked as a lightweight and was the only man to KO HOFer Jimmy McLarnin. He is in the 1951 Topps Ringside set as a referee. Also in E211 York Caramel and the 1928 Exhibit set. I didn't find out about him until I was college age.